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Letter from an Unknown Woman
UNITED STATES · 1948

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Max Ophüls
unrequited love memory and regret class difference obsession self-deception
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Synopsis

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

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